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...While Conyers' bill has been referred to the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Ogletree, Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Professor of Law Christopher F. Edley, Jr., are reviving the issue of reparations and exploring the historical precedent for such actions...
...book aims to offer the President's personal vision of future racial and economic justice, and a kind of work plan on how to get there. "The good news is, he really cares enough about it to want to own it," says one of the ghostwriters, Harvard professor Christopher Edley Jr. But that, he adds, is also "the bad news...
...Aides complained that some proposals went too far, such as one for a program to end racial differences in childhood educational achievement that reached far beyond current budget plans. There wasn't even agreement on whether to emphasize the remaining problems or focus on the progress. "The President," says Edley, "will have to decide whether the glass is half empty or half full." That's if he ever gets back...
...others are not so sanguine. Christopher F. Edley, Jr., a professor at the Law School since 1981, says he feels Harvard has met with limited success...
...Most advisers who come from academia are unfamiliar with and unsympathetic to the harsh constraints of the political system," Edley says...